ADDRESS TO MR. JOHN BELL THOMSON.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2071, 24 December 1869, Page 2

ADDRESS TO MR. JOHN BELL THOMSON.

We have been shown an address which it is proposed to present to Mr Thomson, the officer who has for some years been in charge of the Detective Force of this Province, and who is about to take his departure North to occupy his new position in the Colonial force. The address is signed by the Speaker of the Provincial Council, the members of the Executive, and nineteen other members of the Council, including nearly the whole of the members in town. We believe it is intended, should time permit, to afford an opportunity of the address being signed by the general public. Should the opportunity be given, we have no doubt it would be largely availed of, as the officer in question is very generally respected throughout the Province. We subjoin a cojy of the address : “ To John Bell Thomson, Esq., “ Detective in charge of the Otago Detective Police Force. “ Sir, —We, the undersigned, members of the Provincial Council of Otago, and other residents in the Province, desire to express our sense of the valuable services rendered by yon during a period of nearly four years in connection with the Detective Force of this Province ; and to assure you that you carry with you to another and more enlarged sphere of operation onr earnest desires that your services in future (as in the past) may prove alike beneficial to the public and creditable to yourself. “We are, sir, “ T ours obediently, “ (Signed) “ William H. Reynolds, M.H.R., “ Speaker of Provincial Council.” And others.